Choi, Sungnam wrote: >By recent KADO(Korea Agency for Digital Opportunity & Promotion)'s >survey(2004 Digital Opportunity White Paper), a digital divide is still a >grim reality in age, disabled, education, income, occupation and etc. > >Among them, the demographic gulf is most serious as the gap in usage rate >between teenagers (7~19 year olds) and 50-somethings amounts to 79.3 >percentage points. > > This could simply be a matter of culture; unless there is content that the 50-somethings are interested in, there would be no need for them to get online. The same as anywhere else.
>Most Korean (70.2 percent) accessed the Internet regularly last year >compared to the disabled (34.8 percent), for a 35.4 percentage point >difference. > > The disabled are always in these studies, but I have yet to see data as to why they do not go online as much. We talk a lot about what we can change for their experience online - such as usability, readability, etc. But another aspect of this is the life of a disabled person. If they are stuck in a doctor's office and have no access, or if their lifestyle demands more time, then less time would be spent on the internet. So part of a solution exists within the disabled community itself; depending on how they live and what their specific needs are, they may need help in other ways. I'm not disabled; I cannot speak for the disabled but I certainly can listen. -- Taran Rampersad [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxgazette.com http://www.a42.com http://www.worldchanging.com http://www.knowprose.com http://www.easylum.net "Criticize by creating." — Michelangelo _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
